Trampoline park injuries jump 12-fold as the trend spreads

“I feel a little safer with that”, she said. “Obviously, I didn’t expect that to happen”.

After analyzing emergency room reports from a national database, researchers at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center found the number of ER visits for trampoline park-related injuries skyrocketed from less than 600 in 2010 to almost 7,000 in 2014.

Over that time period, the industry has grown from about three-dozen trampoline gyms to 280, according to the International Association of Trampoline Parks.

“The greater the number of parks, the more children are exposed to injuries related to trampolines”, said Dr. Katherine Leaming-Van Zandt, an emergency medicine physician at Texas Children’s Hospital who was not involved with the study.

When researchers compared the injuries that kids got at trampoline parks and on trampolines at home, they found more serious trampoline injuries were taking place at park than at home.

Leaming-Van Zandt advises all parents to read and understand the risks associated with kids jumping on trampolines, and urges them to watch their children closely if they allow them to go to these parks. In 2015, there were a total of 460 trampoline parks in North America and 220 across the globe.

Using reports from a sample of US hospitals, researchers at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center estimated that visits to emergency departments for injuries from trampoline parks rose to 6,932 in 2014 from 581 visits in 2010.

Kids hurting themselves using trampoline is nothing new as chances of getting injured while playing on trampoline are always very high. The facilities are also becoming popular in Canada.

Goodell said trampoline parks are continuing to raise safety standards. Younger children were less likely than older teens and adults to sustain sprains, however.

“We care tremendously about safety”, she said.

“We’re concerned about every possible injury, from a bumped elbow to the worst”, Zacheretti said.

Researchers want trampoline parks to use their data to make uniform safety guidelines for all trampoline parks.

After doing the study, Kasmire said that she would probably recommend against going to trampoline parks, but that if people choose to go, they should go at a less-crowded time and avoid doing flips, and that parents should supervise their children. “But now we’re seeing more and more of them happening at the parks”.

Cooper Roy, 13, jumps on trampolines at Get Air Salt Lake in Murray on Friday, July 29, 2016. And, despite trampoline parks seeming like a safer alternative to a backyard trampoline (which, to me, just seems like a broken ankle waiting to happen), it turns out that injuries from trampoline parks can be even more serious than those occurring at home. “Just because they are put in a facility rather than a backyard doesn’t mean they are any less risky”. “That’s for a reason”.

(CBS4) – The number of trampoline “parks” is on the rise, and so is the number of kids winding up in the emergency room because of injuries. When they compared the kinds of injuries jumpers received at trampoline parks with those received on home trampolines, they found that the trampoline park injuries were more likely to require hospital admission, a measure of the seriousness of the damage, though they were less likely to involve head injuries. The academy said adult supervision is needed and that trampolines should also have proper padding.

He warned other adventure-seekers to be aware of the risks, however. Go at a less busy time. “I think sometimes people go into there not realizing that”. Knowing the risks could help you prevent injuries.